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Dave Stolz: Is this absurd?

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11/04/2015 07:15:15 PM MST

Granted, it might only appear absurd that the town of Erie is intent on building a commercial complex, complete with a grocery store, at the corner of highway 287 and Arapahoe. After all, there's already a Safeway practically across the street, along with a number of other businesses. Additionally, to get the site ready a reservoir has to be filled in, while enemies are made of neighbors, the town of Lafayette and the county of Boulder. And moreover, this location is miles away from the center of Erie, or a least what seems to be the center of that vast, spreading sprawl of housing, and at the far southwest corner of the town limits itself. On top of all this, what looks like the center of Erie at County Line Road and the Erie Parkway there appears to be plenty of vacant ground crying out for development.

So what's going on here? Is this absurd? Or is this just another example of binge development now all to familiar in these parts.

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